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Air Liquide

Decarbonization Strategy and Risk Mgr (LI NAM)

Air Liquide, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246


Decarbonization Strategy and Risk Mgr (LI NAM)Locations: Houston, TX (HO)

Time Type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 2 Days Ago

Job Requisition ID: R10053428

Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining, and steel industries.

Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?Air Liquide is an energy-intensive company, aligning the sourcing and selling of large amounts of energy (electricity and natural gas), and developing new investment projects where energy management aspects are key elements of the business development phase. Energy Management is at the core of Air Liquide's business model, competitiveness, profitability, and sustainability.

The role of the Energy Management team of AL LI NAM is to optimize and decarbonize AL LI NAM energy portfolio and to mitigate risk exposures, both at operational and strategic levels. The team also provides energy management support to other Air Liquide affiliates and activities in North America. The team drives daily and short-term operational transactions and defines mid- to long-term strategies.

The Decarbonization Strategy and Risk Manager is a member of Energy and Operations Management and reports to the Director Decarbonized Energy Solutions. The position is located in Houston, TX. This position also engages with Electronics, Hydrogen Energy, to ensure NAM Cluster emissions forecasts are well managed including new investment decisions and growth. Also regularly engages with Group Sustainability, LI WBL experts, and LI ESG.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Owns, along with the Climate Champion, the NAM Cluster decarbonization roadmap as related to both scope one and scope two emissions. Responsible for maintaining a detailed understanding of the decarbonization levers and risk, as well as the evolution of decarbonized commercial offers. Directly responsible for the semi-annual reforecast of the Cluster carbon trajectories.

Develop, own, and maintain the NAM Cluster Decarbonization Strategy and Carbon trajectory.

Engage with Entities and associated Operations Control teams to aggregate and maintain the Cluster carbon roadmap and emissions forecast (including both annual Target and ADVANCE exercises).

Responsible for understanding the evolution of the view of Scope 3 emissions to Air Liquide’s reporting as well as how customers are evolving in their Scope 3 reporting requirements and objectives as it relates to industrial gas purchases.

Identify local training needs as relates to decarbonization and identify key populations requiring training. Develop, with the help of subject matter experts, training materials.

Engage regularly with Sustainability to develop the competency to act as the Subject Matter Expert on Product Carbon Footprint throughout the Cluster including LI, IM, and H2E business lines.

Responsible for identifying deviations in emissions reporting from forecast and work with entities to re-align future forecasts as appropriate or reconcile deviations.

Maintaining a view on attribute banking and ensuring that the emission reporting and attribute retirement remain well signed as a secondary check for the entities.

Ensure all CPR and RIC emissions associations are incorporated into carbon forecasts and are well documented.

Support Climate Champion in verifying correct CO2 footprint table data, along with proper documentation, in CPR and RIC documents.

Responsible for the Cluster level confirmation on reporting and retirement of associated attributes, i.e., conducting self-audits.

Calculating Product Carbon Footprint for customers upon request. Executing Product Carbon Footprint related deliverables for low carbon offers.

Responsible for leading carbon related certification efforts.

Responsible for coordinating the decision making regarding where RECs are specifically retired in order to most effectively meet Cluster objectives and customer obligations.

Are you a MATCH?REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum of 5 years of sustainability strategy execution, or minimum of 8 years within the industrial gas business with specific experience in strategy development, and operations control.

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business.

Prior experience with strategy development, as well as business forecasting.

Established industry network a plus.

Strong analytical skills and strategic mindset. Ability to analyze data and develop commercial and financial strategies.

Ability to deliver high-quality analyses and recommendations, autonomously and with limited oversight.

Ability to manage initiatives and projects from idea generation through to execution and delivery.

Strong written and verbal communication skills; including the ability to produce high-quality documents and presentations.

Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 15%.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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